Previous Year Next Year Winter Meeting 2018 (abstracts) Walter Moberly (Durham), ‘Thinking about God: A Reading of Psalm 82’ Rebecca Watson (Cambridge), ‘”Thrown into the Sea”: An Ecologically Damaging Concept in the Hebrew Bible?’ Philip Jenson (Cambridge), ‘Is there a Holiness Code and does it matter?’ William Ford (Belfast), ‘”Like the […]
St John’s College, Durham 16–19 July 2018 Under the presidency of Prof. Walter Moberly Printable version of the Programme. MONDAY 16 July 2.00 pm Committee Meeting 4.30 pm Registration 6.00 pm Reception (sponsored by the Department of Theology and Religion, Durham University) 6.30 pm Dinner 8.15 pm Professor Brent Strawn […]
Violence in the Hebrew Bible: Between Text and Reception 22–24 August 2018, Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Groningen, Oude Boteringestraat 38, Court Room Het Oudtestamentisch Werkgezelschap in Nederland en BelgiëThe Society for Old Testament Study (United Kingdom)Die Ou-Testamentische Werkgemeenskap van Suid Afrika For a pdf of the report see […]
Joint KCL/Oxford workshop 5 November 2018 Oriel College, Oxford This workshop considers the composition, performance, and repetition of texts of lament, loss and healing. We understand the writing and reading of these lament traditions to be the work of therapy. Presentations will explore how interpretive communities – collective and individual – internalise, interpret […]
Conference Programme: Targum Studies in London, IOTS 2018 In consultation with the Institute of Jewish Studies, the International Organization for Targum Studies announces a summer meeting at University College London, 9-12 July 2018 (the conference will start with an evening lecture on July 9th). The full programme can be […]
David Shepherd writes about the upcoming joint meeting of OTW and SOTS: As most of you know, the Society has a longstanding tradition of holding joint meetings with our Dutch-speaking colleagues from the Netherlands and Belgium (and occasionally South Africa). This year the joint meeting will be held at the […]
University of Nottingham (Jubilee Campus) Newark Hall, University of Nottingham, Jubilee Campus, Nottingham, NG8 1AW (see here for a pdf with travel information). 2–4 January 2018 Under the presidency of Prof. Walter Moberly Printable version of the Programme. TUESDAY 2 January [2.00 pm Committee Meeting] 4.30 pm Registration 6.00 pm Reception, sponsored […]
A service will be held in celebration of the life and work of Richard Coggins on Tuesday 22nd May 2018 at 5.30 pm in the Chapel of King’s College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS. Members of the Society are warmly invited to attend. Those planning to attend are asked kindly […]
The Oxford Biblical Hebrew Summer School will take place at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies from August 13-24, 2018. The school offers ten days of intensive teaching in biblical Hebrew. The course corresponds to a term of intensive teaching for a full-time university student and is open to students with […]
The Society wishes to offer its congratulations to last year’s President, Prof Paul Joyce, on his recent appointment to sub-panel 31 (Theology and Religious Studies) for the assessment phase of REF2021. For further details regarding the membership of this panel for both criteria and assessment phases, please see: http://www.ref.ac.uk/about/membership.
